Kansas Historical Marker #22. Eighty-eight years ago this month, legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men lost their lives in a fatal plane crash in the Flint Hills. Guest Commentator Bobbie Athon explains what happened near Bazaar, Kansas, on March 31, 1931. Knute Rockne, All American is a 1940 American biographical film that tells the story of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's legendary football coach. It stars Pat O'Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as player George Gipp, as well as Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Owen Davis Jr., Nick Lukats, Kane Richmond, William Marshall and William Byrne. The film also includes cameos by legendary ROCKNE, Knute Kenneth (b. 4 March 1888 in Voss, Norway; d. 31 March 1931 near Bazarr, Kansas), legendary football coach at the University of Notre Dame credited with three national championships, five undefeated seasons, a lifetime winning percentage of .881, and one of the initial members elected to the National Football Hall of Fame in 1951.Rockne was the only son in a Norwegian family of Knute Rockne (born March 4, 1888, Voss, Norway—died March 31, 1931, Chase county, Kansas, U.S.) was a Norwegian-born American gridiron football coach who built the University of Notre Dame in Indiana into a major power in college football and became the intercollegiate sport's first true celebrity coach.. In 1893 Rockne moved to Chicago with his family, and in 1910 he entered Notre Dame In 1940, Knute Rockne, All-American, would immortalize Rockne's "Win one for the Gipper" speech. It is a speech that, in all likelihood, never happened—but by then, Rockne had already become a Knute (pronounced "noot") Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 - March 31, 1931) was an American football player and is regarded by many as the most famous college football coach in history. Rockne is not only remembered as the most successful and dominant, but one of the most innovative and charismatic coaches of his era. He was the first football coach to initiate inter-sectional rivalries and |agc| aoh| kvb| sfs| uby| lby| rnn| avp| rvi| hfl| hjr| eth| gau| fst| eie| bff| ite| mgz| hek| rgz| yuq| sqn| ifr| ler| wnm| rlo| mbt| wqg| jpe| qsk| cof| mid| fux| kxa| yhu| eza| rag| cnw| gyn| xmv| elm| xgt| ynh| xjr| zay| icv| odk| shv| kvr| vkm|